Gatwick second runway moves closer – with airport challenging Heathrow

This week, London Gatwick Airport confirmed its plans to build a second runway by the end of the decade, a decision that has raised environmental concerns due to the predicted increase of 1.5 million metric tonnes of CO2 it would emit each year.

In an article for the Independent, partner Angus Walker explains that the planning process to expand a UK airport is complex:

‘Being large pieces of infrastructure with considerable environmental impacts such as noise, traffic and carbon emissions, airports must jump through numerous regulatory and legal hoops to gain approval.’

The full article is available to read on the Independent website.